We’ve got to get a lot better special teams-wise. Probably the two most disappointing things have been covering kicks and kickoff return, which that boils down to your field position as a team and where your average drive starts. That’s something that we really spent a lot of time on as a team with Joe (Marciano). We’re going to start from scratch. We’ve got to get it improved, but we’re going to start over here when we come back from the break and obviously we’ve been looking at it. Hopefully we do some things that can help us out.

While the kicking and punting game have been solid, the real trouble has been with kickoffs, where they are 31st in efficiency on covering kicks and have lowest average return in football.

There is so little competition in the AFC, that the random week-to-week fluctuations in play don't change the fact that there aren't more than two or three teams with any credible hope of making the Super Bowl in the conference.